Re: CounterOffer issue

[Vinod Seraphin/CAM/Lotus <Vinod_Seraphin/CAM/Lotus.LOTUS@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> The usual case meeting has been addressed by the current proposal: one
> person (OWNER) calls a meeting and the other attendees can only(?) accept
>or decline.

Looks like you have only read the Microsoft draft 
(draft-ietf-calsch-sch-00.txt).
The Versit drafts (draft-dawson-csp-01.txt and draft-dawson-csct-01.txt) do
discuss counter proposals, as well as delegation and also deals with tasks.
Any useful scheduling protocol must support this meeting negotiation process.

Having finally read through all these, I strongly feel the Versit draft has much
more meat and would be a better starting point for a merge.  The Microsoft
draft does have some good explanations in the Date, Time and Time zone
issues section.

People also need to keep in mind that many vendors today are implementing
support for vCalendar.  It would be a shame to make all this obsolete rather
than building upon it.  The next version of Lotus Organizer shall support both
vCard and vCalendar as exchange formats.  You can cut a vCalendar or vCard
stream of text and paste it into Organizer and have it correctly inserted as an
appointment, task or address entry (hence the importance for the BEGIN/END
delimiters).  Organizer Web Calendar also supports publishing vCalendar
items.  For more info see...http://www.lotus.com/organizer

Versit also provided vendors common parsing code (in the form of a library)
which greatly helped vendors support this format in a relatively short
timeframe.  I'd encourage us to provide similar tools to help everyone use
whatever standards we finally arrive at.

- Vinod Seraphin